Crossword clues for shiite
shiite
- Sunni counterpart
- Many a Muslim
- Ayatollah Khamenei, e.g
- Many an Iraqi Muslim
- One of an Iraqi religious majority
- Moslem fundamentalist
- Member of Islam's second-largest branch
- Member of a branch of Islam
- Many an Iraqi insurgent
- Like some Muslims
- Like most Iranians
- Like most Bahraini Muslims
- Islamic member
- Hajj participant, maybe
- Any member of the Twelver branch of Islam
- Adherent of a branch of Islam
- Devout Iranian
- Many an Iranian
- Islamic worshiper
- Certain Muslim
- Like Iran's Ahmadinejad
- Majority Muslim in Iran
- Follower of Ali
- Ayatollah Khomeini, e.g.
- Twelver, religiously speaking
- A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
- Follower of Khomeini
- Khomeini, for one
- Iranian Moslem
- One 24 is the 1, perhaps
- Adherent of one branch of Islam
- Islamic sectarian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shiite \Shi"ite\, Shiah \Shi"ah\, n. [Ar. sh[=i]'a[=i]a follower of the sect of Ali, fr. sh[=i]'at, sh[=i]'ah, a multitude following one another in pursuit of the same object, the sect of Ali, fr. sh[=a]'a to follow.] A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, "a member of the Shia sect of Islam," from Shia + -ite (1), Latin-derived suffix denoting "follower."
WordNet
Usage examples of "shiite".
Do you have any idea what an Alawite or an Ismaili or a Shiite is saying this month beneath what he appears to be saying?
On that day, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Shiites were gathered in the center of Nabatiya, celebrating the most important holiday in their calendar, Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom, in A.
Before the Ashura incident, attacks by Shiites against Israelis were sporadic and confined largely to tiny splinter factions.
The Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel splinters after Shiite Muslims and Druse in West Beirut launch a revolt against the Lebanese army.
A Sunni Muslim, he maintained a multivolume collection of the Koran, and once reportedly set a bomb that killed twenty-six rival Shiites at a mosque in Iran.
The protesters were strongly supported by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the revered, infallible spiritual leader and guide to millions of Shiites in Iraq.
Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the real Shiite power center in Iraq, was in London for medical treatment, and Moqtada had infiltrated his people into the city of Najaf and eventually into the holiest of Shiite shrines, the Imam Ali Mosque.
It is related that on a dispute between the Sunnites and Shiites of Baghdad about the relative merits of Abu Bakr and Ali, both parties agreed to abide by the opinion of the Shaikh Abul Faraj bin Al-Jauzi.
All that takes place upon the earth befalls according to the eternal decree of God, a conception in which, at least among the Orthodox Moslems, the Sunnites, who are distinguished in this respect, as in others, from the dissenting Shiites, there is no place left for human freedom.
March 1991, roughly a dozen Iraqi Mi-8 helicopters loaded with Sarin nerve gas launched from Tamuz air base and began a series of chemical strikes against rebel Shiite positions in the Karbala region.
It has come to their knowledge that several numerous Shiite brotherhoods and confederacies along the Adriatic and lonian coast and inland to Serbia who support Bonaparte.
It has come to their knowledge that several numerous Shiite brotherhoods and confederacies along the Adriatic and lonian coast and inland to Serbia who support Bonaparte .
The religious leaders of the Council, together with the Faqih, His Eminence the Ayatollah Khamenei, exercised ultimate political power in the government and ultimate spiritual power in most of the Twelver Shiite Muslim world.
Among these were people as widely separated as the Azgar, on the edge of the desert, and certain heretical Shiite fraternities in European Turkey, particularly Albania, Monastir, and a region close to the northern frontier, whose interpretation of the Sunna, read without the usual glosses, points to Napoleon as the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi.
In the course of his duties as a non-commissioned officer, Jessup had met and been befriended by a prominent Shiite cleric and his family in one of the small towns.